Public Sector Contracts in Leicestershire

Public Sector
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in contract job vacancies advertised in Leicestershire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Public Sector over the 6 months to 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 28 17
Rank change year-on-year +20 -11 +3
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 18 7 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leicestershire 11.61% 4.24% 6.86%
As % of the General category 25.00% 8.86% 16.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 7 16
10th Percentile £299 £393 £263
25th Percentile £425 £413 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £425 £463
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -8.11% -15.91%
75th Percentile £625 £438 £525
90th Percentile £670 £445 £538
East Midlands median daily rate £360 £600 £386
% change year-on-year -40.00% +55.34% +18.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £15.00
East Midlands median hourly rate £13.50 £18.75 £18.50
% change year-on-year -28.00% +1.35% +23.33%

All General Skills
Leicestershire

Public Sector is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Leicestershire with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 72 79 124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicestershire 46.45% 47.88% 40.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 70 87
10th Percentile £196 £262 £210
25th Percentile £255 £341 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £319 £425 £440
Median % change year-on-year -25.06% -3.41% +23.51%
75th Percentile £484 £508 £488
90th Percentile £633 £613 £538
East Midlands median daily rate £400 £466 £440
% change year-on-year -14.21% +5.97% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 8
10th Percentile £13.55 £15.81 £14.46
25th Percentile £16.25 £17.03 £16.31
Median hourly rate £21.50 £20.32 £29.25
Median % change year-on-year +5.81% -30.53% +88.71%
75th Percentile £25.50 £22.67 £45.42
90th Percentile £27.45 £23.32 £46.67
East Midlands median hourly rate £17.00 £22.38 £23.25
% change year-on-year -24.04% -3.74% +66.07%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

Job postings citing Public Sector as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Leicestershire.

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in Leicestershire

Public Sector
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leicestershire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Public Sector in Leicestershire.

Daily rate trend for Public Sector in Leicestershire

Public Sector
Daily Rate Histogram in Leicestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Sector in Leicestershire over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Public Sector in Leicestershire

Public Sector
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leicestershire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Public Sector in Leicestershire.

Hourly rate trend for Public Sector in Leicestershire

Public Sector
Contract Job Locations in Leicestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Public Sector within the Leicestershire region over the 6 months to 19 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Leicester +17 18 £550 +29.41% 1
Public Sector
East Midlands

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leicestershire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 3 (16.67%) Azure
2 2 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (5.56%) Azure Functions
3 1 (5.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (27.78%) Internet
1 5 (27.78%) TCP/IP
2 2 (11.11%) Firewall
3 1 (5.56%) DHCP
3 1 (5.56%) DNS
3 1 (5.56%) LAN
3 1 (5.56%) NAS
3 1 (5.56%) SAN
3 1 (5.56%) VPN
3 1 (5.56%) WAN
3 1 (5.56%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (5.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (5.56%) Metadata
1 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) GitLab
General
1 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Administrator
1 5 (27.78%) Support Officer
1 5 (27.78%) Technical Support
1 5 (27.78%) Technical Support Officer
2 4 (22.22%) Systems Administrator
3 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Linux Administrator
3 2 (11.11%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 2 (11.11%) Network Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Ubuntu Administrator
4 1 (5.56%) Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Cloud Specialist
4 1 (5.56%) Data Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 1 (5.56%) Lead
4 1 (5.56%) Mac Administrator
4 1 (5.56%) Mac Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Network Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Salesforce Developer
4 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.56%) Clustering
1 1 (5.56%) Grid Computing
1 1 (5.56%) Public Cloud
1 1 (5.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (33.33%) Windows
2 5 (27.78%) Linux
3 3 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (11.11%) Ubuntu
5 1 (5.56%) Mac OS
5 1 (5.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (11.11%) Change Management
1 2 (11.11%) DevOps
1 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (11.11%) PRINCE2
1 2 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (11.11%) Task Automation
2 1 (5.56%) Agile
2 1 (5.56%) Business Continuity
2 1 (5.56%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (5.56%) Data Ingestion
2 1 (5.56%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (5.56%) High Availability
2 1 (5.56%) Information Security
2 1 (5.56%) ITIL
2 1 (5.56%) Migration
2 1 (5.56%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (5.56%) Project Management
2 1 (5.56%) Security Architecture
2 1 (5.56%) Service Delivery
2 1 (5.56%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.56%) Bash
1 1 (5.56%) C#
1 1 (5.56%) Shell Script
1 1 (5.56%) SQL
1 1 (5.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 5 (27.78%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (27.78%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
3 1 (5.56%) KVM
3 1 (5.56%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Red Hat Satellite
1 1 (5.56%) SCCM
1 1 (5.56%) SCOM
1 1 (5.56%) SCSM
Vendors
1 7 (38.89%) VMware
2 3 (16.67%) Red Hat
3 1 (5.56%) Aruba
3 1 (5.56%) CheckPoint
3 1 (5.56%) HP
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.56%) Salesforce
3 1 (5.56%) SolarWinds